Concrete Dreams of Sound (Vinyl)

Concrete Dreams of Sound
Vinyl + booklet

Composed, recorded, mixed, and produced by Gerard Gormley
Electronics by Gerard Gormley.
Violin by Gascia Ouzounian
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Album photography by Gerard Gormley
Graphic design by Rupert Smyth Studio

All images and sounds recorded at The Barbican, London. 2023
All material © 2024 Gerard Gormley - All rights reserved

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Gerard Gormley is an Irish composer and sound artist whose work explores the actual and latent sonic potentials of spaces, buildings, and sites. His work evolves through various experimental processes that explore sound in relation to space, place, and architecture. This might be an iterative process of recording sounds and vibrations at a site and playing them back into that site, such that the site becomes a carrier of, and dwelling-place for, sound and music that was created from it; or transplanting sounds from one place to another, bringing various places and their sonic and material histories into dialogue through recording, sounding, and listening. Much of his work is granular and hyper-detailed, taking place at the level of microsonic and micro-textural investigation. His work has been shown in The MAC Belfast, Modern Art Oxford, Cannes Festival, Storung Festival (Spain), The Cube at Virginia Tech, Sonorities Festival, and been broadcast nationally on cinema and television in Ireland and the UK.

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Built Sound is a label devoted to exploring the relationships between sound and architecture. Our series A Building Made of Sound features albums that each explore a single building from an acoustic perspective. Through a process of listening, sensing, and acoustically activating architectures, a building's acoustic character is felt, imagined, and revealed.,